A World Bank carbon offset plan involved kicking people off their lands so that a forest could grow.

This is a fundamental conflict, and human population growth makes it worse.

US citizens: support taking away tax exemption from professional sports leagues.

The al Qa'ida affiliate in Syria has joined up with PISSI (the pseudo-Islamic state). This will simplify Obama's argument that Congressional authorization for war against al Qa'ida covers fighting PISSI.

Fighting PISSI might offer a path towards ending the fighting between Assad and the other Syrian rebels.

Protesters have again blocked an Israeli ship from unloading cargo in the port of Oakland.

Hong Kong Surprises Itself with the Exuberance And Spontaneity of Protests.

Thugs were unable to shut the protests down.

So the government withdrew the thugs.